--same shit, just a different brand.

they collected the cell #s and will spam ppl from now til Nov.

(and don't ppl have to pay to receive text msgs? i don't have a cell--i refuse)

how do you say "it's an old white guy who's been in DC since Nixon" in L33t?

Also, i laughed when i read this. The snark and attacks write themselves:

Biden is mr. credit card, or was it specifically the Senator from MBNA?

Former College plagerist==guess he and Barry have lots in common there.

Wearer of the Pink Tutu--as Bartcop would say.. talks tough then finds a way to say, okay no problemo. I don't know for sure, but wasn't he a Mr. Bi partisan gang of 14 member?

Oh Wait.. DIdn't he vote for the Authorization to USE FORCE against Iraq?? this is the horrible no good terrible evilest vile thing that HRC ever ever did in her whole life of evilness...

And Joe? oh, not so evil I guess.. much better redeeming qualities like.. uh.. testicular devices.

Sheesh.. Vice President BIDEN.. ?? gag me. dupager

...and in this instance, it would not have mattered if the VP had been announced a day or two after the text message gimmick was announced.

But this was one giant clusterfuck... even forgetting for a moment that the minute the Secret Service is dispatched, its a dead giveaway, the campaign had to "roll out" the text messages -- in other words, the media would be reporting on the FIRST text messages received well before most of the messages were sent.

I think the original idea was to send everyone a text message at the same time during the work-day. Unless you are spending your time watching cable news for rumors, your 'text message' would be the first news... and Obots all over America would be telling their co-workers who the VP pick was, and talking up Obama.

But the technology wasn't able to handle the number of messages that had to go out simultaneously -- I don't know anything about text message protocols, but I do know that I just sent a text message from one cell phone to another on the same network, and it took 3 seconds for "message sent" to appear. One suspects that different networks have different response times, and if you are out of your own network's covering range, it takes even longer. So, if you are talking about a million messages, you are talking about a LOT of time waiting for the various 'handshakes' that have to occur...

Yup... All Obama campaign has to say is that "we began rolling out txt messgages at XXpm, hours before the press announced the VP name, but due to technical problems and the sheer number of txt messages, many did not get sent out before the media announced his name." Of course those getting the early txt's are all staffers, but it is enough to cover to blatant lack of "ponying up" by the Obama campaign.

I'm not sure I get the whole issue around the text messaging thing. If I blame anyone, it would be for those dumb enough to fall for what was obviously a gimmick.

BTW, the Secret Service shouldn't have been such a huge tip-off. Just days before the MSM has spotted Secret Service "crawling" (there own words) the streets of Providence.

the picture in the post says, "You will receive an email the moment Barack makes his decision,[...]" (My emphasis) FAIL

I understand what it says, I just think the criticism is kind of petty. I could see criticizing him when he first came up with this ridiculous gimmick. I don't know. That he didn't come through on it was a given, to me. The 'promise's' wording sounded ambiguous to me from the getgo, and how could he promise that there wouldn't be a leak?

He failed his supporters the minute he came up with this gimmick, which, BTW, wasn't to announce his vice president as much as it was the fact that the more direct the interaction the candidate gives you the more likely you are to vote for him or her (can't find the study).